Hello everyone: This is my first post to the Fedora Core Mailing list. Anyway, here it goes. I have a GUI application written in QT. I want to launch this app in background mode after the user logs in. I'm trying to do this by creating a /root/.xinitrc file and having in it the following lines <path to my app>/<my app name> & /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc The problem is that this works with Suse's distros, but not Fedora. The application closes up shortly after starting. (this can be confirmed by suing top). Any ideas on this? Any help will be highly useful, thanks. Dario Oliva Linux Software Engineer Arco Data Protection Systems doliva@xxxxxxxxx 1-954-925-2688 ext. 31